‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists (The Guardian) The Left is what happens when kids never grow up.

Jordan Klepper Crashes CPAC and Confronts Delusional MAGA Cultists (Daily Beast) Best high-school ‘journalism’ ever.

The Supreme Court may be setting the stage for the mother of all culture clashes (Washington Post)

Mary Trump on the fate of democracy (MSNBC) If her name weren’t Trump, would anybody care?

These Minnesotans are bringing social justice to the Seder table (Minneapolis Star Tribune) There is no escaping the Woke.

Anti-Israel Referendum at Princeton Marred by Fraudulent Instruction From Top Voting Official

MSNBC Warns of ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Allows Free Speech

Add Kansas to the Growing List of States Banning Sanctuary Cities

70% of Seattle Light-Rail Riders Don’t Pay

Twitter Suspends LibsofTikTok For Featuring Liberals Talking About Themselves?

Avlon Laments ‘Another Blow to Our Democracy’ After RNC Debate Withdrawal

New AMC Drama ’61st Street’ Depicts Cops as Horrible Monsters

CNN Slams Libertarian Children’s Books—Causing Sales to Surge

Twitter Board Adopts “Poison Pill” To Thwart Musk Takeover, Exposing Itself To “Titanic” Legal Liability  Musk is taking lessons from Trump on Shaking The Box; I suspect he’s having a great time.

GOP Lawmaker: Hitler Should Serve as an Inspiration to Homeless People (Daily Beast) Best high-school ‘journalism’ in the country.

NY AG launches gas price gouging investigation into the oil industry (CNN) Gouging!

DOJ charges 3 Russians with running ‘foreign influence and disinformation network’ in U.S. (CNBC) Can a Trump indictment be far behind?

Raskin: Jan. 6 panel’s report will include ‘crimes that have not yet been alleged’ (The Hill)

Soros-Funded Group Whines Billionaires Are ‘Toxic’ to ‘Democracy’

Freeberg nails it.

So, Elon has made his move on Twitter. And now we’re all talking about free speech, and those awful terrible billionaires doing…stuff.

This debate over “free speech” is about to drift over into “Yeah but what about truth?” The narrative is going to be that we can’t have speech that’s so free that people can sling about untrue things. So it’s like a hose, you see? Or a coffee filter. You can constrict it and be anti-free-speech, but if you open it up too much, a bunch of “disinformation” gets in there…so we have to find a happy medium.

Back up the truck. Before we even get there, let’s inspect this.

ZMan discusses what’s going on.

It is fair to say that this is the worst time for Christians and Christianity in the West since the Roman empire. In order to promote equality, liberal democracy has created protected classes of people who cannot be criticized. The other side of this are people who must me mocked and ridiculed. Christians were the first group placed in this category and remain the popular object of ridicule in the West. There is no prohibition against overt hatred of Christians in most Western countries.

We are not feeding Christian to lions in gladiatorial pits, but you can be sure some elements of the ruling class have thought about it. Back in the Obama years, much of the health care bill was designed to torment Christians. For example, forcing Catholic groups to pay for abortions and prophylactics. There was no public health reason for these provisions. They simply satisfied the demented and sadistic impulses of the people who put together the program.

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What is this “democracy” that Max Boot seeks to protect? It seems undeniable that his understanding of “moderation” includes the elimination of “content” (even if completely accurate) that puts left of center political interests and candidates in a bad light. The thin pretense that Boot is deeply committed to the truth is part of the same vision animating Nancy Pelosi’s claim that legislation intended to make election cheating vastly easier is needed to “save” democracy.

The weird use of “democracy” here is more than a cynical attempt to gain an electoral edge for one side. There appears to be a coherent tacit redefinition of “democracy” at work.

David Horowitz.

Bernie Sanders is the founder of the Progressive Caucus and most popular figure in the Democrat Party. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and therefore a key player in determining how Washington decides to spend taxpayers’ dollars. Bernie is also a lifetime fan of Communist regimes and apologist for their totalitarian practices – and atrocities. He supported Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime in 1979 when it made hostages of 52 American diplomats and embassy workers, held them for 444 days, and chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” – repeating the threats through time.

As an American politician for more than five decades, Bernie’s chief passion has been hatred of billionaires and of wealth in general, and of the economic system that makes wealth possible. He pursues this passion without a scintilla of self-awareness, ignoring the fact that he, himself, is worth $3 million. This personal wealth allows him to own three houses, while the average person is lucky to own one. While presenting himself as a champion of the working classes, and opponent of million- dollar incomes, he has no apparent intention of redistributing his own wealth to less fortunate individuals who may need it more than he does.

68% of U.S. execs admit their companies are guilty of greenwashing (Fast Company) In their limited sample.

Global executives suspect their own companies of “greenwashing” (Axios) based on the same small sample.

XR scientists glue hands to business department in London climate protest (The Guardian)

The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal (Gizmodo)

Is civil disobedience OK if it’s the only way to prevent climate catastrophe? (The Guardian)

Why are climate and conservation scientists taking to the streets? (The Guardian)

The climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes, scientists report (CNN)

First look: Climate, environment shape Gen Z life decisions (Axios)

Exit the Paris Climate Accord

Where have all the Clouds gone and why care?

??Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming (Wired ‘Science’)

The View: SCOTUS to ‘Pass a Bill’ ‘On Their Desk’ to Make NY ‘Open Carry’  The level of ignorance among the ‘journalists’ of the Narrative Media never ceases to amaze.

Two Florida men at The Villages admit to voter fraud in 2020 election (Washington Post)

San Francisco ready for ‘change,’ Pelosi faces criticism from hometown crowd ahead of reelect bid

Dysfunctional Supreme Court confirmation process damages democracy (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Principal at elite Lowell High School resigns, slamming SFUSD in farewell letter (San Francisco Chronicle)

Peruvians are over their president. Latin America seems over democracy. (Washington Post)

‘A plot to destroy democracy’: civil rights group raises alarm at threats to US elections (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Now nothing will stop the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade (Washington Post)

UK to give asylum seekers one-way ticket to Rwanda (BBC)

Hawaii Democrat hasn’t been to DC in months, still working as airline pilot

Net Domestic Migration: Shift to From Larger Metros to Smaller Areas Accelerates

In Name of ‘Consumer Protection,’ Government Forces Financial Institutions to Go Woke

Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian: More Freedom Is Tyranny

LA Sheriff Charges That Policies of Soros-Backed District Attorney Profit Criminals

Twitter Suspends Popular ‘Libs of TikTok’ Account  Go, Elon! Go, Elon!

Not Just Biden: Lawmakers Say Dianne Feinstein Is Cognitively Impaired

Is the Woke Cultural Agenda of Union Leaders Undermining Support For Unions?

The ACLU Forced an All-Female Prison To Take Transgender Inmates. Now 2 Prisoners Are Pregnant.  Saw that coming.

Kimmel: Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Made ‘To Get Dumb People Excited’  Well, he’s a dumb person, and it got him excited, so I guess it worked.

Democrats Dominate ‘Misinformation’ Firm Working With Teachers’ Union

VIDEO: Democrat Mocks Asian Congresswoman’s Accent  And Democrats were assholes, every one.

The Squad’s Next Member Compares ‘Defund the Police’ Activists to MLK  Well, for one thing, they’re less Republican.

In Ad Campaign, DC Police Union Slams Politicians Over Surge in Crime

The Urge to Spend Other People’s Money

‘Hard Right Turn’: MSNBC Aghast At Republicans Being Republicans

CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises (Associated Press)

WHO says Covid still a global public health emergency even as deaths fall to lowest level in two years (CNBC)

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, says WHO and Biden administration (NPR)

Pfizer’s Bourla: COVID vaccines for new variants possible for Fall (Reuters)

Primary iPhone factory in China now operating as normal, new COVID-19 precautions in place

Watch: Fauci Admits “You Use Lockdowns To Get People Vaccinated”

Proof that Covid Shutdowns Are Useless

‘Covid Relief’ Funds Spent on Tennis Courts and Smoothie Bars  Well, I’m sure that was a relief.

Texas Follows Through With Gross Stunt of Dumping Migrants in D.C. (Daily Beast)

Greg Abbott eagerly fills the border-politics void left by Trump (Washington Post)

How to explain Tim Scott? (Washington Post) Well, usually by just making stuff up.

Replacing derogatory names in WA gets dragged into our larger culture war (Seattle Times)

State: Residency law too late to remove Trump-backed hopeful (Associated Press)

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoes 26 Democratic bills (Associated Press)

Liberal NowThis News ripped for 2018 video mocking Trump’s prediction about Germany  Trump was right again.

Capitol riot defendant blames actions on Trump and false election claims (The Guardian) He now loves Big Brother.

NY AG expands Trump Organization civil investigation to include role of appraiser (CNN)

Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals (The Guardian)

These Bay Area and California billionaires pay a lower effective federal tax rate than you do (S.F. Gate)

MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Democrats repeatedly fearmonger, claim GOP will be the ‘death of democracy’

Ruhle Lets MSNBC Analyst Liken Republicans to ISIS on Abortion

MSM Brands Musk A “Supervillain” As Blue Checks Melt Down Over Hostile Twitter Takeover

Environmental justice leaders fault White House’s race-neutral approach (Washington Post) They have no problem with racism so long as it’s pointed in the right direction.

BLM co-founder slams ‘triggering’ charity transparency laws after $6M mansion exposed

BLM co-founder blasts financial disclosures as ‘triggering’ and ‘unsafe’

Justice, civil rights groups reach settlement on Lafayette Square protests (The Hill)

Brooklyn Subway Shooter Promoted Racial Violence on Social Media  But he’s black, so that’s alright.

Warnock Asks Court To Seal Child Custody Proceedings, Citing Reelection Bid

BLM Is Triggered and Traumatized by Having to Fill Out Government Financial Forms

Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘Slowkey Fred’ Busted for Philly Gun Trafficking Ring

BBC Guide Tells Parents To “Examine Their Biases” If Their Toddler Only Has White Friends

Frank James’s private hell

The NYT Wrestles with the Mysterious Power of Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings

Why Biden’s pandering trip to the ‘heartland’ is worthwhile (Washington Post) Gotta keep those rubes in Flyover Country quiet.

Psaki slams Gov. Abbott over truck inspections at Texas-Mexico border, blames him for price increases

Biden approval rating tumbles to lowest point of his presidency: poll

Biden’s approval falls to new low amid economic pessimism, inflation woes, CNBC survey finds (CNBC)

‘Now I’m pissed’: Secret Service agents outraged by White House spin over First Dog bites

Biden Extends Mask Mandate For Americans, While Scrapping All Restrictions For Illegal Border Migrants

It’s Biden’s price hike, not Putin’s

Hunter Biden Likely To Be Charged Under FARA… If DoJ Applies The Mueller Standard  Which it won’t. The Crust takes care of its own.

Biden Administration Extends Freeze on Student Loan Payments… Again  They’d love to just cancel student loans and be done with it, but they realize that it would be seen for what it would be, a huge giveaway to the Children of the Crust at Dirt-People-Taxpayer expense.

Pigeon That Pooped On Biden To Speak At CPAC  Babylon Bee.

This Group Is Poised To Sue the Biden Administration To Stop a New Iran Nuclear Deal

Biden FEC Pick Repped Mayor Who Robbed Children’s Book Profits To Fund Campaign

Biden Fuels Soaring Inflation and Media Does Its Part to Gaslight Us About It

New Rule Would Force Climate Change Reporting Requirements on Most Companies in America

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Yellowstone is celebrating its 150th birthday by offering an annual park pass that won’t be valid for another 150 years. In exchange for a $1,500 donation, park supporters can snag a current annual parks pass and one of these “Inheritance Passes,” handing it down to their descendents to use in 2172.

There’s one born every minute.

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Affordable non-polluting power would break a lot of rice bowls. I’m looking forward to it.

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Germany is a big source of income for Russia. Conversely, Germany depends a lot on Russia, which provides 55% of Germany’s gas, 34% of its oil, and 53% of its hard coal. And fossil fuels provide the lion’s share of Germany’s energy needs.

Follow the money….

The basic problem with nuclear power for the Crony Crowd is that it doesn’t provide any of the Cloud People with a dependable stream of income – not like oil, gas, wind, solar, chicken farts, and unicorn poop.

Steve has some thoughts.

I just had my first decent breakfast in weeks. I had my last good breakfast in Ireland, during my recent trip. Every breakfast since then was lame. Until today. I just visited McDonald’s.

I don’t know why people don’t man up and admit McDonald’s makes some of the best breakfast food on the planet. It must be snob anxiety. They’re afraid of what other people will think. I remember seeing Candice Bergen brag that she had never had a McDonald’s hamburger. She sounded like a fool to me. Sure, she said the right thing to avoid raising the anemic eyebrows of her elitist vegan peers, but she sounded like a snob who was more interested in currying favor than in enjoying good food. For all she knew, McDonald’s burgers were wonderful, but she was afraid to try them because the unwashed intracoastal masses ate them.

I know Mcdonald’s burgers are NOT wonderful, but then I’ve eaten them. I gave them a shot. I didn’t sneer at them in proud ignorance.

Today I had a sausage and egg McMuffin, a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit, and hash browns. I mixed Hunt’s All-Natural ketchup with a little Frank’s Red Hot, and I dipped liberally. I’m still basking in the afterglow.

Concur. I have great respect for the Sausage Egg McMuffin. It isn’t the best breakfast sandwich available, but it’s far from the worst.

ZMan does an eyeroll.

The government released the latest inflation data and the results were the worst we have seen in forty years. The retail number came in at 8.4% and the wholesale number clocked in at 11.2%. Of course, the retail number excludes the things that people buy, like food, fuel and housing. These numbers also rely upon the new math rather than old math used the last time inflation was an issue. By the old inflation standard, retail inflation is over 15%.

The political class is poleaxed by these numbers as they have been assured that inflation at these levels was impossible. Modern economic theory says that inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. We now have top men in place to keep an eye out for this. They just need to manage the money supply to keep inflation under control. This assumption led the top men to assume inflation was transitory, the result of supply chain issues.

That should be the first red flag when looking at the economic data. Those top men that are supposed to have a handle on the money supply say they are as surprised as the rest of us that food has doubled in price. A month ago, they were talking about a series of exceedingly small rate hikes. Now they are talking about a series of substantial rate hikes to prevent inflation from going even higher. You get the sense that there is both panic and confusion among those top men.

Ann Coulter is fed up.

Weird that the media didn’t cite Ketanji Brown Jackson’s height and weight as her most important characteristics. When it came to THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT, it was all about her race. But after a guy shot up a New York City subway car this week, the last thing the media wanted to tell us was his race.

For more than three hours after the attack, we got urgent alerts: Suspect at large! Police request public’s help! Be on the alert for a male, about 5’8?, 160 lbs.”

In this particular case, the media’s rule of never telling us the suspect’s race (unless he’s white) was more deranged than usual. This wasn’t a carjacking. It wasn’t a shooting at a block party. It wasn’t an attack on an Asian or Jew. This crime had all the earmarks of a terror attack — smoke bombs, fireworks, a gas mask, and about a dozen people shot while trapped in a subway car.

The police desperately needed the public’s help, but most people were looking for a Middle Easterner.

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“What happened to that guy?” A lot of us have asked this question in the past few years about columnists, pundits, and thinkers we’ve always agreed with, only to see them taking a wildly different tack. Next, we’ll ask, “Did I change or did they?” I know I’ve changed quite a bit, but to see influential conservatives pushing “the conservative case for voting Democrat/Promoting CRT and Queer Theory/censoring Republicans/etc.” remains tough to stomach.

Every time I see “The Conservative Case For [insert proglodyte scheme here]” I want to barf.

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According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott’s announcement on April 6.

This could prove amusing.

Brooklyn subway shooting live updates: NYPD concludes investigation at 36th Street station

BLM defends multimillion-dollar mansion purchase in lengthy Twitter thread

Vandals spray paint over national award-winning social justice murals in Gainesville parks (Gainesville Sun)

Subway Shooter Coverage in NY Times vs. NY Post  Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings proves out once again.

“Kill All The Whiteys” – Suspect In Brooklyn Subway Shooting Spouted Hateful “Black Nationalist” Rhetoric, Praised “Beautiful” 9/11

‘It’s, Like, Triggering’: Watch BLM Leader Break Down Over Laws Requiring Disclosure of How She Spent Donor Money

“Decolonising Math”: University Asks Professors To Consider Race Of Mathematicians Before Relying On Their Work

Racial Paranoia in Post-Obama America

Subway shooting suspect Frank James arrested: an equal opportunity hater, but you would have trouble learning that if you only read the MSM

Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense (The Guardian) And Robert Reich knows all about dangerous nonsense.

An unintentionally revealing line in a Donald Trump un-endorsement (CNN) And of course Chris Cilizza, ace mind-reader, absolutely knows what Trump’s intention is.

Kimmel Hits Back at Accused ‘Sex Offender’ Matt Gaetz for Calling Him Sexist (Daily Beast)

Did Jared Kushner just get a $2 billion bribe? (Philadelphia Inquirer) Since he’s not a public official, it doesn’t matter. But it’s really all about Trump.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Joining Military Is ‘Throwing Your Life Away’ (Newsweek) Leaving out, of course, the key qualifier ‘under Biden’.

Jimmy Kimmel Spots Major Trump Confession Hiding In Plain Sight (Huffington Post) Except that it isn’t really.

The infuriating insincerity of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ chat about San Francisco homelessness (S.F. Gate)  Infuriating! (The Narrative Media is just chock-full of expert mind-readers.)

CLOWN Robert Reich: Elon Musk’s ‘Libertarian’ Views on Internet ‘Dream of Every Dictator’

NYT Opinion Editor: Couldn’t Help Worrying ‘For Our Democracy’ After Hearing Conservative Men  ‘Their’ democracy is one in which they win all of the time.

20 Federal ‘Assets’ Embedded At Capitol On Jan. 6, Court Filing Says

Outrage over comedian called ‘Putin’s joker’ holding San Francisco show (S.F.Gate) After all, Putin is the New Trump.

Protesters confront San Francisco audience attending show by comedian who appears on Russian TV (KGO-TV) Oh, no! Russian TV cooties!

How a mysterious Putin ally, the ‘Russian Gatsby,’ moves his billions (NBC) Ooooooo! Mysterious Putin Ally!

U.S. hunt for Russian oligarchs’ huge fortunes faces barriers offshore (Washington Post) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject Ooooooo! Kremlin-connected!

Team Biden scrambles to respond to claims of Russia chemical weapon use (Politico)

Putin purges more than 100 FSB agents in apparent retaliation amid Ukraine invasion quagmire

The next phase of the Ukraine war will be bloody

Taibbi: Straight Out Of Dr. Strangelove

Slovakia In Talks With NATO Allies To Send MiG-29 Jets To Ukraine

With Le Pen Closing Gap In French Election Polls, Macron Smears Opponent As Russian Sympathizer

China Used NATO Airspace To Deliver Missiles To Serbia

Americans Are “In Charge” Of The War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine  No wonder the Ukrainians are doing well.

Sweden To Apply For NATO Membership – Finland To Decide “Within Weeks”

Kremlin Again Warns US-NATO Weapons Transports Into Ukraine Will Be Attacked

Pentagon Convenes ‘Classified’ Meeting Of Top 8 US Arms Makers As They Reap Ukraine Windfall

Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme

Which Oil Giant Stands To Lose The Most In The Exodus From Russia?

Roker Frets to Obama That Ukraine Is Distracting From Climate Agenda

Could A Full Oil Embargo Stop The War In Ukraine?

For first time, Ukraine to get US artillery in new $800M weapons package

Saudi TV mocks Biden and Kamala Harris with SNL-style viral skit

Inflation surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high

CNN Analyst Calls Out Biden Admin’s ‘Putin Price Hike’ Lie

Watch as Biden Spin Artist Ruhle Is Forced to Deliver Bad Inflation Report

Is the Biden gas pump sticker arrest 2022’s greatest artwork?

‘But in Reality’: NBC Smacks Down Biden’s Inflation Lies

Biden cracks down even on green energy

 Covering For The Big Guy

Military Vets Injured in Terror Attacks Say Biden Ignoring Their Sacrifices

Ruhle Laments Voters Don’t Buy White House Economic Spin

Veep in Free Fall: Even California Voters Souring on Kamala Harris

It’s Not ‘Putin’s Price Hike.’ It’s ‘Bidenflation.’

Covid-19 may be hastening democracy’s demise (Washington Post) Not that Jennifer Rubin would know democracy if it bit her on the butt (which it just might, in the mod-terms).

Tucker Carlson Brags to Megachurch That He Is Totally Unvaccinated (Daily Beast) They say that like it was a bad thing.

US Pulls Consulate Staff From Shanghai As Beijing Eases Lockdown

Georgetown prof curses out anti-mask students

CHINA: Shanghai And Other Surprises

Anti-Lockdown States Performed Better Than New York & California, Think Tank Finds

Liberal Worried That Next COVID-19 Wave Might Be Too Mild To Use To Push Agenda  Babylon Bee.

COVID study

Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (Washington Post) Not that anybody at the Washington Post has ever had a septic tank.

Biden to announce authorization of E15 gasoline in an effort to increase US fuel supply, reduce gas prices  And, quite coincidentally, give a windfall to ethanol producers at the expense of drivers everywhere.

Why ‘eco-conscious’ fashion brands can continue to increase emissions (The Guardian)

Blistering June heat, unprecedented April snow: Climate change makes extreme weather more likely in Oregon (OregonLive)

New York shows the challenges of phasing out fossil fuels, even in blue states (Washington Post)

Our Climate Is Heating Up And We Know How To Stop It. But Will We? (NPR)

US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating (The Guardian)

The race to roll out ‘super-sized’ wind turbines is on (CNBC) Wonder how many birds those will kill.

Climate change ravaged America’s oil capital. Can it lead on clean energy? (L.A. Times) Except that it didn’t.

Earth’s CO2 levels to hit alarming milestone (Axios)

‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety? (The Guardian)

Are cities ‘spongy’ enough to handle floods? New climate resilience report points to nature for solutions (CNN)

America’s Huge Natural Gas Reserves

Interpreting extreme climate impacts from large ensemble simulations—are they unseen or unrealistic?

NZ helped scrub ‘plant-based’ diets from IPCC climate report

Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch

CNN’s long history of pushing disinformation, here are five examples

Economist Robert Reich: Despite growing wages, workers are still “being shafted” by corporate greed (Salon)

17 L.A. gangs have sent out crews to follow and rob city’s wealthiest, LAPD says (L.A. Times) Time to leave.

The best solution to high gas prices: tax the oil companies (CNN) How that will lower, rather than raise, gas prices isn’t exactly clear.

Four lessons from France on how to defend democracy (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin is just chock-full of ideas on how to ‘defend democracy’.

Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden Have Same Problem: Getting the Left to Vote (Daily Beast) That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.

How much energy powers a good life? Less than you’re using, says a new report (NPR)

Far-Right One America News Is in Existential Crisis Amid Mass Exodus (Daily Beast) Not to mention efforts by the Narrative Media to cancel them.

Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay

WashPost’s Wemple Brings the Numbers to Needle Brian Stelter About CNN’s Partisan Filter

MSNBC’s Tur Pushes Gun Control, Fears Increased Police in NYC

California Looks To Reduce Weekly Work Hours To 32

“Sh*t Show”: Triggered Twitter Employees Melt Down Over Elon Musk’s Uncertain Intentions

“Scientist Rebellion” Risking Arrest to Demand Climate Action

CNN+: A Bomb of Epic Proportions

Hayes Politicizes NYC Shooting, Frets SCOTUS Will Approve Concealed Carry

Minneapolis Fed President Goes Woke, Does Political Lobbying, Ignores Inflation

Journalists Have Learned Nothing From the Laptop Fiasco, and They’re Not Sorry

“People Are Afraid” – LA’s Crime Surge Migrates To Wealthy Zip Codes  Because that’s where the money (and the liberal voters) are.

California’s Vanished Dream, by the Numbers

AZ Teachers Union: Parents ‘Drama Queens’ For Demanding Transparency

On the Front Lines of California’s Homeless Debacle

Pharisees Delighted By This New ‘Wokeness’ Thing That Lets Them Constantly Judge And Make Everyone Feel Guilty  Babylon Bee.

California Wants to Regulate Your Bacon. Here’s Why the Supreme Court Should Save It.

ZMan does some detecting.

When Trump famously came down the escalator to declare his candidacy, many assumed it was just a publicity stunt from a guy known for showmanship. Some went a bit far in criticizing it but Trump is one of those guys who can rub some people the wrong way. Once it was clear that he was a serious threat to be nominated, it also became clear that those harsh critics had contracted this new mind virus.

Granted, we did not know it was a mind virus. When Bill Kristol started waving around Hillary Clinton signs, it was just assumed he was bitter. In fact, that was the assumption about all of the neocons who were ranting about Trump. He had torpedoed their guy Jeb Bush so their attacks were just sour grapes. Jonah Goldberg was sure his old lady was going to land a job in the next Republican administration so Trump was a huge blow to his plans.

We now think that Trump triggered the forgotten Trotsky gene. All of those old neoconservatives and their progeny who had been posing as conservatives for fifty years have the Trotsky gene. Trump triggered it and as a result they instinctively returned to their natural state as hyper-violent leftists. At least it was assumed that Trump triggered it. Further evidence suggests that a virus of some sort was in the air that was the real cause of the neocon reaction.

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The Antiplanner has previously written that light rail should be called lie rail because everything its advocates say about it is a lie.

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As of 2021, 27% of people living in Germany have a “migration background”, according to the following article. As far as I can tell, Turks are counted as “Europeans” in this report.

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Our local paper had a news story today about an interesting lawsuit filed against Coastal Carolina University by a former employee. Erika Pomerantz (in white jacket at right) is a psychologist who worked in CCU’s counseling department since 2017. Then, in 2019, she alleges that the university hired a less qualified, less experienced counselor and paid her a higher salary than Ms. Pomerantz. Things started to get complicated when she complained to her superiors about this.

They informed her that the new hire was African-American, and that Ms. Pomerantz “presented as white”. I presume that her boss was shocked when Ms. Pomerantz didn’t accept this explanation. Ms. Pomerantz pointed out that she was a combination of Asian, Latina, and Jamaican – she was not white, and did not appreciate being treated as such. She filed a complaint of racial discrimination to the university’s human resources department. Soon afterward, she was treated even worse than that.

How long will it be before calling someone ‘white’ will be prosecutable as a Hate Crime!

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New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) highlights the areas in Europe and North Africa where the construction of wind turbines or power lines is likely to increase the risk of death for migrating birds.

The dirty little secret of ‘sustainable energy’.

Hydrogen 11 times worse than CO2 for climate, says new report (New Atlas)

UK to finalise world’s first subsidy for clean hydrogen production by end of the year (Recharge)

Electrifying homes to slow climate change: 4 essential reads (The Conversation)

All the new oil and gas projects approved since IPCC report

New Research Shows Estimates of the Carbon Cycle – Vital to Predicting Climate Change – Are Incorrect (SciTechDaily)  My, what a surprise.

Why Global Temperature Doesn’t Matter for Global Crop Yield

NPR Wrongly Blames Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption, and Weather

The Elite Think Climate Action is More Important than Your Ability to Pay Your Bills

“Green” Dreams Kill People

Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

It’s Time for Transparency of The Embedded Costs of Going “Green”

NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces Juneteenth as a paid city holiday Even though it has nothing to do with New York.

To be anti-racist, don’t confuse character for accountability (Seattle Times)

Houston car dealership employee flips script on attempted robber, sends him running

The View Claims Rubio Is a Race-Traitor for ‘No’ Vote on Jackson

BLM Leaders Call For Renewed Protests This Summer After Finding A Fantastic Beach House For Sale On Zillow  Babylon Bee.

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Parent Opposed to Race-Based Admissions

How Left’s Obsession With Critical Race Theory Hurts Minority Students

Who Suffers the Most From Crime Wave?

New York Lt. Gov. Arrested On Charges Of Bribery, Fraud And Falsification Of Records

Noah: GOP ‘A**holes’ Wanted ‘Free N-Word Passes’ After Jackson Vote  Because of course that’s how he’d react.

Top NY Dem Arrested in Campaign Finance Scheme

Dem Who Portrays Himself as Law Enforcement Advocate Sits on Board That Promotes Prison ‘Alternatives’

The Democratic Party Is Further Left than Al Sharpton

Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both (The Guardian) Let us not permit a pesky little war distract us from what is Really Important: Climate change!

France’s Societe Generale sells Russian bank to oligarch Vladimir Potanin (CNN) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt, says S&P (CNN)

Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s ‘inner circle’ revealed (BBC) It’s all about the oligarchs.

Russia Threatens Legal Action If US Treasury Forces It Into Sovereign Debt Default

Bankruptcy or bombs: Sprawling defense budget sets US up for financial and military ruin

Ukraine, Russia, and Israel

Home Before Christmas?

8-Mile Long Russian Convoy Signals Huge Assault Readied To Take Donbas: Pentagon

Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: Corporate Media Deploys The Big Guns On Ukraine

Message From Ukraine — Nukes Do Deter

Putin’s imperialism in Africa  All Putin, all the time.

War-Risk Premiums Make Ships Entering Black Sea Uninsurable

Ukraine Is Already Fading On Television News

AIR DEFENSE: Ukraine, Germany And Arrow 3

Finnish network kitmaker Nokia quits Russia over Ukraine invasion

Russia Steps Up Efforts To Jam US-Provided GPS In Ukraine: Pentagon

Nobody Knows What The US Would Do In A Chemical Weapons Situation

The uses of Putin

White House: Our Critics Are Pro-Putin  Apparently Putin is the New Trump.

Washington’s dirtiest war at last goes silent

Pentagon Treats Azov Claims Of Russian Chemical Attack With Caution After UK Amplified Them

Lost: The Truth About the War in Ukraine. If Found, Please Return ASAP.

$54M in Chinese gifts donated to UPenn, home of Biden Center

ABC Headline & Tweet Touts Poll Blaming Big Oil and Putin, Not Biden for High Gas Prices

Watch: Former Obama DHS Head Warns Of “Major Influx” Of 18,000 Illegal Immigrants Per Day

8 Varieties of Rancid Pork in Latest Spending Bill

Watchdog Blasts $54M In Chinese Gifts To UPenn After Biden Center Announced

DOJ Election Threat Taskforce Appears To Have ‘Something To Hide’: Watchdog Group President

Biden Infuriates Environmentalists, Oil Refiners By Allowing More Ethanol In Gas To Lower Prices

You Know Things Are Bad When Saudi State TV Mocks Joe Biden

Media Collusion of Hunter Biden/Joe Biden Bombshell Story

As Inflation SKYROCKETS, Nets Finally Voice Skepticism About ‘Putin Price Hike’ Excuse

Joe Biden Holds Annual Performance Reviews Giving Americans An 8.5% Pay Cut  Babylon Bee.

White House adviser: Extending TSA mask mandate ‘absolutely’ still on the table (The Hill)

WHO says it is analysing two new Omicron COVID sub-variants (Reuterrs) Let’s see if we can generate another PANIC!

Covid cases among Washington power brokers put new focus on White House’s protocols for Biden (CNN)

Philly will require masks in indoor public spaces again as COVID-19 cases rise (Philadelphia Inquirer)

China Covid outbreak: Guangzhou closes schools, Shanghai’s new cases soar to a record

Lockdowns Didn’t Work: Blue States Rank Dead Last for COVID Response

Yankee Stadium Employee Fired Over NYC Vaccine Mandate

Here We Go Again: Philadelphia Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate

Sweden’s inconvenient Covid victory

CBS Hypes 4th COVID Shot, Whines Americans Care More About Inflation

Moderna Recalls 764,900 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses After Contamination Found

Skynet Does Dallas: 7-Foot-Tall Robots Are Being Used To Enforce Mask Policy At Love Field Airport

Covid Smell Loss Linked to Damage in Brain, Study Finds

Philly Brings Back Masks as Most Americans Say COVID Crisis Has Passed

76ers Guard Ineligible For Playoff Games In Canada Due To Vax Status

Liz Cheney is the most skillful advocate for democracy (Washington Post)  I’m sure Cheney’s future Democrat opponent in next year’s election will appreciate this ringing endorsement by Jennifer Rubin. (As will Cheney’s inevitable primary opponent.)

Boudin, Gascón accuse law firm of targeting immigrant-run businesses with fraudulent disability suits (S.F. Chronicle)

USPS stops deliveries to California neighborhood after repeated attacks on mail carriers: Report

Why schools adopted the 1619 Project as a curriculum when it was full of historical errors

Poll reveals despair about Seattle that leaders can no longer ignore (Seattle Times) Really? Just watch them.

Disinformation, American style

Everything wrong with journalism under one roof

Ex-Swimmers Unite Against NCAA’s Unacceptable Trans Policy

Behold, NY Times Books: Reagan Released Greed, Racism vs Inspiring Che Guevara

Special Counsel John Durham Continues His Focus On The Hillary Clinton Campaign

Under Top Prosecutor’s Policies, Sheriff Says, ‘It’s Profitable to Do Crime in Los Angeles County’

Disinformation, American style (6)

WashPost’s Rampell: Biden Should Let in More Immigrants to Solve Inflation!

Panicky Scarborough Scolds White Democrats: Your Wokeness Is Losing Minority Voters

At least 13 Injured In Brooklyn Subway Station Shooting Incident, ‘Unexploded Devices’ Found

Media Collusion: Nets Silent on Hillary Being Fined Over Sketchy Steele Dossier

Obama Calls for ‘Modifications’ to Online Anonymity, Says Misinfo Can Be ‘Fatal’

The Epic Failure Of CNN+ Is A Sight To Behold As “Big Cuts” Loom

Sciutto Blames Southern Gun Laws For Brooklyn Shooting

EPIC FAIL? Morning Nets Largely Ignore Inflation Announcement – Again

Atlantic writer who called Hunter Biden laptop not ‘interesting’ enough to cover harped on Trump Jr. affairs

The emptiness at the heart of Republicans’ midterm campaign (Washington Post)

Donald Trump Began to ‘Resemble Putin’ As President: Ex-Adviser Fiona Hill (Newsweek)

Ron DeSantis Sparks National Wave of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bills (Newsweek) And a national wave of media mischaracterization.

Former Virginia police officer who stormed US Capitol found guilty on all charges (CNN) Stormed!

Biden’s Sister Blames Trump For Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems

“It’s only a matter of time before the people with guns feel entitled to tell the people without guns what to do. That’s why the Second Amendment is so important.”  — Charlie Kirk

Read it.

A leftist magazine co-founded by former President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor Robert Reich urged the federal government to seize control of the fossil fuel industry. Because … climate change.

The American Prospect, of which Reich is founding editor, ran an April 8 article headlined, “Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet.” Leftist economist Robert Pollin argued that “Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.”

This is the same Pollin who co-authored a book with radical philosopher Noam Chomsky pushing a “Global Green New Deal.” In his new article, Pollin exploited the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest climate doom-mongering report to argue: “[W]e must begin advancing far more aggressive climate stabilization solutions than anything that has been undertaken thus far.”

Read it.

   

A shoot-out in downtown Sacramento, California, at two in the morning on Sunday, April 3 left six people dead and injured at least twelve. It might or might not have been gang warfare. The facts are still unfolding.

One of the shooters, Smiley Martin, twenty-seven, was out of jail on early release against the advice of the Sacramento county district attorney. “He poses a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community,” authorities said, opposing Martin’s release from state prison.

“Inmate Martin has, for his entire adult life, displayed a pattern of criminal behavior,” wrote Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard. “His history indicates that he will pursue his own personal agenda regardless of the consequences and regulatory restraints placed upon him.” Martin “has no respect for others, for law enforcement or for the law. If he is released early, he will continue to break the law,” prosecutors concluded.

Joel Kotkin.

In 1946, the American author John Gunther described Houston as “mostly ugly and barren, without a single good restaurant and hotels with cockroaches”. The only reasons to live in the city, he claimed, were financial; it was a place “where few people think about anything but money”.

This view was widespread at the time, and has lingered well into the 21st century. Forget Houston. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are the cities most frequently associated with the urban American dream.

Fast forward to today, however, and a new urban renaissance is taking shape — and this time, it’s in the heart of Texas. Never before in American history have two metros in one state — Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth — been in the nation’s five largest. So much for its cockroaches; at its current rate of growth, Houston could replace Chicago as the nation’s third largest municipality by 2030.

‘Democrats Are Always Two Steps Behind’: NBC Frets Over Dem Failures

California’s High Power Prices Could Derail Liberal EV Dream

A sour and angry America poised to punish Dems this fall (Politico)

Lawmakers pushing WA capital gains tax regardless of judge ruling it unconstitutional

Eric Adams makes plea for mayoral control of NYC schools

Biden expected to announce new gun regulation, eyes new ATF nominee (CNN)

MSNBC’s Phang Uses Debut Weekend to Plug Crist Against ‘Hard-Right’ DeSantis

Los Angeles Prosecutors Decry Disturbing Results of DA George Gascon’s Policies

Antifa Riots In French Cities Because They Didn’t Like The Election Result

Stunning Rise In Chicago Carjackings Leaves Lawmakers Scrambling  Time to leave.

It’s Time to Vax the Chix

After Europe’s latest Covid surge, will the US follow suit? (The Guardian)

The Dirty Little Secrets of Trump’s Pandemic Aid (Daily Beast)

Former Clinton pollster: Biden has lost his ‘likeability’ Clue: Biden never had any.

The Biden family scheme unravels

Where to Put the Illegals

Biden’s Radical Open Borders Policies Prompt Pushback